http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/ Engadget Comments for ASUS / Pegatron Neo with Tegra 2 hands-on http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/Jan 8th 2010 11:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/Jan 9th 2010 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/Jan 8th 2010 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/
Maybe not. True, I can't imagine this smartbook/pseudo-laptop/whatever-it-might-be-called making many sales or even making it to production, based on how many mini-laptops in the market right now that run Android (dont quote me but I don't think are any). Using the default Android UI and simply scaling it up is doomed to failure, but if they use it more as a foundation to build on to, like the Sense UI but with even more complexity, they might have something. After all, Android is still a great platform.]]>Jan 8th 2010 11:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/Jan 9th 2010 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/Jan 9th 2010 12:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/I really think they are sticking closer to the original ideal of a low end "netbook" and less of a notebook here. And if that's what there shooing for this is perfect. What more do you need for web, word and a few other simple tasks then Android and a little bit of storage?
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Gotta agree here. Don't understand all those smartbooks with Android. If you can't have a proper POSIX environment on there, run Emacs, install uninstall all those useful libraries and tools with decades of tradition and development, what's the point?

I can understand having a limited system on a limited device like a phone or tablet. But giving you a proper small mobile laptop, and then putting Android (or Win7) on it, is like outlawing walking, because everyone else is a paraplegic.

Just put a proper (e.g. .deb based) Linux distro on there. Less work to get the Android environment running on there than the other way around.]]>Jan 9th 2010 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/Jan 9th 2010 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/Jan 8th 2010 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/
And HP and the Envy need to stop ripping off Macbooks...

Seriously, look at almost all the laptop posts on this site, I doubt it's possible to find 3 in a row that don't look like the Macbook/Macbook Pro. And the new tablets? They look like giant iPhones...]]>Jan 8th 2010 11:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/And everyone needs to stop ripping off the Sony Vaio with those chiclet keyboards...and that includes apple.

Don't think Apple doesn't take part in stealing designs as well.]]>Jan 9th 2010 12:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/
I guess I should finish off with the standard:

"Everyone steals designs, it's how the industry improves, so please shut up about stuff like this"

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Amen!!

The original "Slate" made out of real slate with a wood frame and a chalk interface was an obvious rip off of the iPhone!!]]>Jan 9th 2010 1:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/and macbooks, vaios, and envys stop claiming an 80s style keyboard design as their own invention...]]>Jan 9th 2010 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/smartbook
how many articles until we get this down]]>Jan 8th 2010 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/Jan 8th 2010 11:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/Jan 9th 2010 12:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/
Cool. I hadn't noticed that. Cool. If it's raised it would be easy to trim down and replace with another plastic M in the same font etc from something else. Or even carve one out of some scrap plastic and paint it the same. Cool. I award you 500 extra large "+" type internets! You Macbeth win the web for today-ish!!!]]>Jan 9th 2010 1:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/Jan 9th 2010 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/Jan 9th 2010 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/
Uhhh..... because!
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Google should develop a standard smartbook-specific UI for Android, otherwise if OEMs wise up and start making custom UIs, Android won't have a consistent look and feel between devices.]]>Jan 9th 2010 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/
And I hope some of them start doing so, because I'm really sick of seeing those tiny 4 icons along the bottom of every tablet and MID concept supposedly designed for Android. Dell is certainly doing interesting things with the Streak, so clearly adding platform-specific functionality is a possibility.]]>Jan 9th 2010 12:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/Jan 9th 2010 12:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/Jan 9th 2010 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/Moblin is made by Intel, and I don't think they want to port it to a competing architecture. Some parts may be able to be ported by other parties, though.]]>Jan 9th 2010 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/Jan 9th 2010 12:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/Jan 9th 2010 1:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/
You think so? I don't really see it. The keyboard looks like a Mac's, I'll give you that, but otherwise it looks more like a Sony ultraportable to me, with the sort of sharper corners and sloped design.]]>Jan 9th 2010 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/looks more like the sinclair zx81 keyboard]]>Jan 9th 2010 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/Jan 9th 2010 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/
*However, don't you all think this would be redundant to another netbook?]]>Jan 9th 2010 1:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/Jan 9th 2010 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/Jan 9th 2010 6:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/Jan 9th 2010 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/Jan 9th 2010 6:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/
http://www.johnsadowski.com/uploaded_images/newbrain-783670.jpg]]>Jan 9th 2010 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/Jan 9th 2010 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/Jan 9th 2010 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://wp.me/pKBau-16]]>Jan 9th 2010 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/I couldn't agree more. Pls, Canonical release Ubuntu for the Tegra 2.

]]>Jan 9th 2010 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/
I definitely want a 'smartbook', and preferably slightly smaller than this one, running a proper Linux distribution. Well, OK, ideally I'd like one running OS X (and not the iphone variant either), but that seems rather less likely, so I'll settle for Linux...]]>Jan 9th 2010 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/It seems that Nvidia has started supporting Ubuntu Linux on Tegra 2.

See this: http://wp.me/pKBau-1b
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